読む
よむ
Meanings
- Godan verb, Transitive to read
- to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant
- to predict; to guess; to forecast; to read (someone's thoughts); to see (e.g. into someone's heart); to divine
- to pronounce; to read (e.g. a kanji)
- to decipher; to read (a meter, graph, music, etc.); to tell (the time)
- to count; to estimate (now mostly used in idioms) See also: サバを読む (さばをよむ).
- to read (a kanji) with its native Japanese reading (also written as 訓む)
Kanji
- 読 read. Read as よむ.
Example sentences
- 本を取ってそれを読みなさい。
Take a book and read it. - 彼は夕方本を読んで過ごしました。
He spent the evening reading a book. - この世界は本で、旅しない人は一ページしか読まない。
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. - 彼がそのニュースを新聞で読んで知りました。
He learned the news while reading the newspaper. - 子供のころ、私は一人、自室で何時間も本を読んで過ごしたものだった。
When I was a child, I would spend hours reading alone in my room.
Common phrases
- 本を読む
- 読みやすい (よみやすい) easy to read
- 漫画を読む
- 手紙を読む
- 記事を読む
- 小説を読む
- 新聞を読む
- 原作を読む
- 脚本を読む
- 台本を読む
- 原稿を読む
- 弔辞を読む
- 読み終わる (よみおわる) to finish reading
- 心を読む (こころをよむ) to read (someone's) thoughts
- 読み間違える (よみまちがえる) to misread
Words containing 読む
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